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RE: RE: Many many modules

by le (Friar)
on Jul 26, 2000 at 13:18 UTC ( [id://24432]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to RE: Many many modules
in thread Many many modules

...but in general, Perl modules lack good documentation...

I have to disagree, because IMHO, Perl Modules come with a rather good documentation, as you mentioned the perldoc. This is sufficient in most cases, if you just want to use the module. Of course, if you want to write and/or _understand_ a module, you have to look elsewhere.

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RE: RE: RE: Many many modules (Perl documentation isn't bad in general)
by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 26, 2000 at 18:10 UTC

    Hmmm - after desperately searching for a module in the standard distribution of Perl, I have to admit that I can't come up with an example of bad documentation. I only remember that the documentation for HTML::Parser was really bad, as they documented that one could "use either the version 2 compatible interface" (which was nowhere documented but maybe in the obsolete version of this module that was no more around) or the new (and completely different) version 3 interface, but the documentation completely lacked any example. Maybe that's because the documentation for this module is supposed to be in some book, I don't know.

    But nonetheless, I have to admit, Perl module documentation is not bad in general, it was only my perception of the documentation (you seldom notice good documentation :).

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